Thanks for the story, Helen. I think I heard Mary O'Hara once, live, in the small Irish Midlands town in which I worked - must have been mid to late '70's, at a guess. She was very popular - but not to my taste. "Tot homines..."

As I think I mentioned elsewhere, there are now a number of harpists who approach traditional Irish music with much more attack and with, perhaps, greater sympathy for the musical form - but I still find it difficult to get much pleasure from its use as accompaniment to singing.

Regards